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The contribution-first workflow
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<p>I've worked on many software projects with a lot of custom code.</p>
<p>Not all the code is specific to that client or project, and often, code is identified as it can be extracted from the project and open-sourced as a Drupal module, PHP or JavaScript library, or Tailwind CSS plugin.</p>
<p>Usually, the code is written as custom code initially, with the best intentions to revisit it once the project is complete and open-source it.</p>
<p>But this rarely happens, as there's always the next sprint or project waiting.</p>
<p>It takes too long to extract the code as it usually needs to be tidied or refactored beforehand.</p>
<p>It may have been written with the client or project name within the code, which needs changing.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to avoid this step.</p>
<h2 id="here%27s-the-thing">Here's the thing</h2>
<p>Instead of writing it as custom code and hopefully extracting it later, start it as a separate module, library or plugin, and use Composer or npm to add it to your project as another dependency.</p>
<p>Whilst it's a slightly smaller overhead, it's better and less risky than rewriting or refactoring code later and it's already open-sourced.</p>
<p>Plus, you may get some issues, testing and improvements from others along the way.</p>
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<p>I've worked on many software projects with a lot of custom code.</p>
<p>Not all the code is specific to that client or project, and often, code is identified as it can be extracted from the project and open-sourced as a Drupal module, PHP or JavaScript library, or Tailwind CSS plugin.</p>
<p>Usually, the code is written as custom code initially, with the best intentions to revisit it once the project is complete and open-source it.</p>
<p>But this rarely happens, as there's always the next sprint or project waiting.</p>
<p>It takes too long to extract the code as it usually needs to be tidied or refactored beforehand.</p>
<p>It may have been written with the client or project name within the code, which needs changing.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to avoid this step.</p>
<h2 id="here%27s-the-thing">Here's the thing</h2>
<p>Instead of writing it as custom code and hopefully extracting it later, start it as a separate module, library or plugin, and use Composer or npm to add it to your project as another dependency.</p>
<p>Whilst it's a slightly smaller overhead, it's better and less risky than rewriting or refactoring code later and it's already open-sourced.</p>
<p>Plus, you may get some issues, testing and improvements from others along the way.</p>
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